216 MISC. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
contains (pt. 1) an alphabetical list of genera giving names of recommended 
varieties with short descriptions or at least indication of color, etc., and 
(pt. 2) extensive list of additions and corrections.——See also Bean, above, 
and additional references there given. 
Clapham, A. R., Tutin, T. G., and Warburg, E. F. Excursion flora of the 
British Isles. xxxiii, 579 p. 3 fig. (glossary). 19 cm. Cambridge, 1959. 
Keyed pocket flora of vascular plants, with descriptions of the commoner 
species, the rarer ones given only in the keys; ranges given in rather gen- 
eral terms. 
Tutin, T. G., and Warburg, E. F. Flora of the British Isles. 1i, 
1591 p. 79 fig. 19 cm. Cambridge, 1952. 
Keyed, descriptive flora of vascular plants, with brief data on chromosome 
number, life form, pollination, etc.; short bibliography, glossary. Accom- 
panied by Roles, S. J. Flora of the British Isles. Illustrations. pt. 1. 144 p. 
incl. 552 fig. 29 em. Cambridge, 1957. (Figures, 4 to a page, covering 
Pteridophyta to Papilionaceae.) 
Clarke, W. A. First records of British flowering plants. 2d ed., rev. and 
corr. xvi, 194 p. 19 cm. London, 1900. (Arnold Arboretum library.) (1st 
ed. 1897, reprinted with additions and corrections from Jour. Bot. v. 30-84. 
1892-96).—[Additions.] Jour. Bot. 47: 413-416. 1909. 
Bibliography; list of first British records for each species, with date and 
citation of original notice; summary. The records are brought up-to-date 
under each species in Druce’s Comital flora (1982). 
Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper’s Complete herbal: consisting of a compre- 
hensive description of nearly all herbs with their medicinal properties and 
directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them. (Title 
varies.) 430 p. col. pls. 19 cm. London [etc.], [1952]. (1st ed. (later 
repudiated by author), 1652, with title, The English physitian or an 
astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation .. .) 
Extensive list of native and cultivated plants, alphabetically arranged by 
vernacular names, with brief descriptions, astronomical sign and supposed 
medicinal virtues, habitat, season; list of diseases with their remedies. The 
scientific names supplied in the later editions are not always reliable. For 
partial list of the innumerable editions, see A. Rehder, Bradley Bibliography 
3: 79. 1915; also British Museum catalogue of printed books 46: 155. 1950. 
The work has been reprinted far more often and over a much longer period 
than any other book dealing with British plants, although its actual value is 
very slight.—See also Barton, above, and additional references there given. 
Curtis, William. Flora londinensis: containing a history of the plants 
indigenous to Great Britain ... New ed., enl. by George Graves and William 
Jackson Hooker. 5 v. 647 col. pl. 52 cm. London, 1817-28. (1st ed. 1777 
(1775-98) ; reissue of new ed. in 1835.) 
Descriptive flora, with vernacular names in various European languages; 
now of value chiefly for the excellent colored plates. Issued without pagina- 
tion or plate numbering. For index, see B. D. Jackson, Index to Curtis’ Flora 
londinensis ... Jour. Bot. 54: 153-164. 1916; for information on the number 
of plates, see F. Cardew, Jour. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 2: 228-224. 1950.—See 
also Boulger, above, and additional references there given. 
Dandy, J. E. List of British vascular plants. Prepared... for the British 
Museum (Natural History) and the Botanical Society of the British Isles. 
Incorporating the London catalogue of British plants. xvi, 176 p. 22 cm. 
London, 1958. 
List of vascular plants (2187 species, 685 microspecies, and 73 subspecies 
(total 2895), as well as 538 hybrids), with typographical] indication of alien, 
extinct, and unconfirmed species and of those species that are known only 
from Channel Islands. Replaces Britten, James, and Rendle, A. B. List of 
British seed-plants and ferns... 43 p. 23 em. London, 1907. (Systematic 
list of specific names with citation of synonyms from Bentham’s, Hooker’s, 
and Babington’s floras. Only the adopted names with their places of publica- 
tion are given, not parenthetical authorities or name-bringing synonyms.)— 
See also their Notes on the “List...” Jour. Bot. 45: 99-108, 433-445, 1907.) 
Also replaces The London catalogue of British plants ... 11. ed. 565, 
[38] p. 22 cm. London, 1925. (1st ed. 1844.) (Systematic list of 2362 
